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Score 5,000 vector icons perfect for all kinds of design projects [Deals]

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This membership offers lifetime access to a massive library of top-shelf icon assets, along with all future updates.
This membership offers lifetime access to a massive library of top-shelf icon assets, along with all future updates.
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Whether you’re building an app or designing a site, icons are key to creating a clear interface. Unless you’re a graphic designer, you’ll have to hire one or get access to an asset library. Either way, that’s expensive, but not with this deal from Icon54.

How Apple Borrowed iOS’s Hamburger Icon From Xerox PARC

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It’s no secret that Steve Jobs was inspired by the incredible work Xerox was doing over at PARC Labs when he came up with the Mac: he borrowed the computer mouse, the desktop, and even the Macintosh business plan from the famous tech think tank.

Now, it looks like we also owe the ubiquitous hamburger icon — widely used in iOS as a menu shortcut, as well as a way to order draggable lists — to Xerox PARC as well. It turns out that the first example of the hamburger icon shows up in a 1981 video for the Xerox Star workstation.

Add The Final Touch to Your Designs With Over 900 Hand-Drawn Icons [Deals]

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This Cult of Mac Deals offer features a must-have set of icons for all your designing needs. With three different sets of icons available, you have the necessities to make any webpage unique and give that hand-drawn personal touch. The icons are available in 8 file formats, including vector source files, raster images in four sizes, icon font files and vector files for custom font rendering.

All the hand-drawn goodies are creatively doodled, which cannot be substituted by any filters or effects. Its a must have for every designer who wants to create a hand-drawn website, application, presentation or print media. And right now you can get this bundle for just $39!

Get The Best Hand-Crafted Icons To Make Your Designs Pop [Deals]

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If you want a successful app you will need to get across a large amount of information in a tiny amount of space – and that is where these Webbicon icons come in handy.

With over 1200 vector icons, you will have all of today’s hot categories covered with these high-quality icons. The collection includes 5 different sizes for each icon so you will have every option covered. And Cult of Mac Deals has it for only $19 – a savings of 86%!

Art Text 2: Photoshop For The Non-Technical Designer [Deals]

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One of the best-selling apps in the Mac App Store designer category, Art Text 2 is a layer-based design application that will help you turn text into art. Whether it’s for business or personal needs, you can create logos, web graphics, and buttons – all in professional quality – without the steep learning curve of Photoshop or Illustrator.

And Cult of Mac Deals has it for 54% off the regular price – only $9!

Get Over 2,000 Icons Optimized For iOS 7 With The iOS 7 App Developer Icon Pack [Deals]

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As a designer, you can never have enough icons. Period.

The iOS 7 App Developer Icon Pack is a collection of vector icons and symbols optimized for iOS 7 app development. Engineered for the tab bar and toolbar in iPhone and iPad, they’re always pixel perfect and ready for Retina displays. During this limited time offer, Cult of Mac Deals has it for 48% off the regular price…only $39.

Sunday Specials: Photography Gear And Icons Bundle [Deals]

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As the week ends for many of us (and starts for others), Cult of Mac Deals has a couple of offers that look appealing in more ways than one.

First up is KICK: the Game-Changing Portable Lighting Studio. KICK provides smartphone-controlled studio quality lighting and effects that you can add to all your images and videos – and it fits in your pocket! The other offer is The Icojam Raster Icons Bundle, which features over 4,200 high quality icons for your design arsenal. KICK is going to cost you only $149 and the Icojam Raster Icons Bundle will run you just $35 – but both are available for only a limited time.

Get Thousands of Icons And Pictograms With The Professionally-Designed Web Icon Set [Deals]

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You can never have enough tools in your designer toolbox, and Cult of Mac Deals has assembled another deal that will allow you to add even more high-quality design elements to yours.

With The Professionally-Designed Web Icon Set you’ll get thousands of icons and pictograms at a fraction of the regular price — just $49. That’s a savings of 85%!

This icon bundle includes Pictograms, Stock Icons and Mini Icons. All are modern in design and available in various PNG sizes. Here’s what you’ll get in this package (Note: Visit the Deals page to view samples of each of the sets included in this bundle):

  • Application Toolbar Icons: PNG Format; 24, 32, 48px sizes
  • Business Icon Set: PNG Format; 24, 48, 64, 128px sizes
  • Colored Mini Icon Set: PNG Format; 16px size
  • Country Flags Icon Set: PNG, PSD Format; 16 – 512px sizes
  • Credit Cards Icon Set: PNG Format; 32, 48, 64px sizes
  • Food Icon Set: PNG Format; 48px size
  • Hand-Drawn Sketch Icon Set: PNG Format; 48px size
  • Minimal Vector Mini Icon Set: PNG, PSD Format; 16px size
  • Mobile Application Icon Set: PNG Format; 48, 64, 90px sizes
  • Outline Style Pictogram Set: PNG, PSD Format; 24 – 512px sizes
  • Pictograms Glyphs Icon Set: PNG, PSD Format; 16 – 512px sizes
  • Portfolio Icon Set: PNG Format; 24, 48, 64, 128px sizes
  • Social Media Glyphs Icon Set: PNG, AI Format; 16 – 512px sizes
  • Social Media Icon Set: PNG Format; 48px size
  • Status Icon Set: PNG Format; 24, 48, 64px sizes
  • Stroke Icons: PNG, PSD Format; 16 – 512px sizes
  • Transportation Icon Set: PNG Format; 32, 48, 64, 76px sizes
  • Weather Icon Set: PNG Format; 32, 64, 128px sizes
  • Web Browser Icon Set: PNG Format; 16, 32, 64, 128px sizes

(Note: You’ll need Adobe Photoshop CS5 or higher and Adobe Illustrator CS5 or higher to make use of these icons and pictograms.)

Whether you’re creating a website, application, or wireframe for a client or personal use, adding these professionally designed, high-quality, and royalty-free stock icons to your collection may just be the best thing you do all week. So pick up The Professionally-Designed Web Icon Set for only $49 from Cult of Mac Deals today!

Spotify Finally Updated For iOS 7

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The Spotify app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch has finally been updated to support iOS 7. There are some subtle interface changes that better fit iOS 7’s new design guidelines, but it’s not quite the overhaul you may have been expecting.

Add To Your Design Arsenal With The Premium Vector Icon Bundle [Deals]

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It’s the little details that often matter more than you think, and that holds true when it comes to design. So when you’re creating a new work, why wouldn’t you want to have as many tools at your disposal to help you make those little details shine? That’s where this Cult of Mac Deals offer comes in.

You’ll get over 1200 vector icons for the low price of just $19.99 – but it’s an offer that will only be around for a limited time.

iOS 7’s Maps Icon Is No Longer Trying To Kill You [Image]

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From top to bottom: pre-iOS 6 Maps icon, iOS 6 Maps icon, iOS 7 Maps icon.

When Apple unveiled iOS 6’s new Maps icon, it became an emblem for everything that was wrong with Apple Maps, a service that — at launch — was widely criticized as being inferior to Google’s own maps data, which every previous version of iOS had shipped with.

Why the icon? Because it gave directions that would probably end up killing you if you followed them in real life. But that’s all changed in iOS 7.

Max Out Your Designer Toolkit With The Ultimate Icon Bundle [Deals]

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When you’re a designer, you can never have enough icons. This Cult of Mac Deals offer delivers icons galore!

Simply put, this massive bundle of 2500 professional-quality icons is a must-have for any designer. With The Ultimate Icon Bundle, you’ll have all the icons you could ever need for all your design endeavors – and you’ll have them right at the tip of your fingers for only $39.

Apple’s FaceTime Icon Makes No Sense

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I’ve never given much thought to Apple’s FaceTime icon, but it really doesn’t make any sense. Like seriously, what is the trapezoid on the right? It can’t be the lens because there’s a lens in the box. Is that the back facing camera and the triangle trapezoid is the front camera?

It’s supposed to be an old video camera glyph with the lens superimposed, but it’s so redundant that it still doesn’t make any sense for FaceTiming purposes.

The FaceTime icon should probably look something like this instead:

Stack Your Web Design Toolbox With The World’s Largest UI Bundle [Deals]

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Sometimes you need to have that one tool in your digital toolkit, and it just isn’t there. Sometimes you want to have more to work with, but you just run out of inventory. Sometimes you just don;t have enough of what you need.

This latest Cult of Mac Deals offer will get rid of all of those “sometimes” when it comes to web design, because you’ll get over 300 vectors, icons and more for all of your design needs with The World’s Largest UI Bundle. And you’ll get it for only $69!

Apple Attempts To Trademark Its Music Icon, But Myspace Got There First

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Almost everything Apple creates is patented and trademarked in an effort to ensure that other companies can’t steal its ideas (though they do). However, sometimes the folks in Cupertino hit a stumbling block. That’s what happened when Apple attempted to trademark its Music app icon recently, only to find that Myspace got there first.

Keynote Icon Ditches Depressing Lyrics, Now “Thinks Different” Like Apple’s Other Icons

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Here’s something cool you may not have noticed yet. With its new Keynote update, released alongside Pages and Numbers yesterday, Apple replaced the unique icon that features the somewhat depressing lyrics to The Bitch of the Living by Spirit Awakening with a new 2012 icon that displays a famous quote from the company’s Think Different commercial. The same quote now appears on several of Apple’s Mac OS X icons.

iOS 5 Finally Gets An Animated Clock Icon Thanks To LiveClock Update [Jailbreak]

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LiveClock, a tweak from Ryan Petrich that animates the Clock app’s icon to show the time, was once one of the first tweaks I would install after jailbreaking my iPhone. But after installing iOS 5, I had to live without it — because it just wasn’t compatible. Now, nine months after iOS 5 made its debut, it is!

Apple Now Requires High-Res 1024×1024 Icons For Every Mac OS X App

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This is what happens if you try to submit a Mac app without a 1024x1024 icon.
This is what happens if you try to submit a Mac app without a 1024x1024 icon.

Back in June, Cult of Mac reported that Apple was set to introduce a new requirement for iOS apps that meant every single one had to ship with an icon measuring a whopping 1024×1024 pixels for Retina display devices. Developers are now reporting that the same requirement has been applied to Mac apps being sold through the Mac App Store, and that they cannot physically upload their apps without them.